Josh Ritter – Truth Is A Dimension Both Invisible And Blinding (Guitar)

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I got off the highway north of Desert Canyon Station

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I was driving with my headlights off, just stars for navigation

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My telescope, my notes and my ham sandwiches and coffee

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Sometimes you must be all alone and there ain't no way to not be

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I was thinking about Tonya, how things had rearranged

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And everything had come full circle, we were back to being strangers

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She was with a man named Neil now, that's all I knew about him

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But I was happy she was happy, real happy that she'd found him

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It was just after 11 when I pulled off at the lookout

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The parking lot was empty though the air still smelled like cookouts

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And yes I admit I toked one, that doesn't change what happened

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Anyway you're not my parents, and it really helps my mapping

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Of the System 611, a Magellanic cluster

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I'd been watching for a while, I got my telescope adjusted

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And I turned it toward an unassuming patch of dusty sky

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That was really fifty million stars a billion lightyears wide

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And then all at once it felt as if time had been suspended

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And a vision poured into me like a bottle'd been upended

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I was filled with revelation both infinite and finite

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That filtered down my telescope encoded in the starlight

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It said, "Truth is not immutable, itself is a dimension

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Truth can be both weighted down and warped in strange directions

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Truth has a shape that alters, each according to observer

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Sometimes you must be close to it, sometimes you must be further

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Truth can bend and truth can break, depends on how you ask it

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It frays or it may blaze out at some pall bound for Damascus

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And it sometimes gets mistook for God, sometimes for his servant

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It both exists and doesn't, like a star that's not observed yet

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Which all at once returned my thoughts to System 611

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Still twinkling down the telescope into my mind from heaven

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And I stood there looking upward as the darkness turned to dawn

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And received that strange transmission until finally it was gone

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And though I knew beyond a shadow my discovery was real

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The person that I longed to tell was sound asleep with Neil

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In some parallel dimension maybe Tonya is still mine

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But in this one she loves someone else, that left me to search the sky

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So I went ahead and wrote this to alert you to my findings

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I call it, "Truth Is a Dimension Both Invisible and Blinding"

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You can give me the awards now, you can knight me or whatever

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I've got nothing going on now me and Tonya aren't together

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You can go ahead and laugh at me and all of my conclusions

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Symposiums and seminars and think tank institutions

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You may even talk to Tonya, let me ask you if you do

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Please tell her I still love her, that will always be the truth